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Now NGSC do not support IRM libraries. It's not critical (for me) because NGSC support only OneDrive for Business library.
But once NGSC will support SharePoint library, it's necessary to support IRM library due to security and compliance.

The product 'Zee Drive' by Thinkscape has some great ideas on how to achieve reliable use of ODFB for everyday desktop client users. It relies on a 'localhost server' and connect to 365 via standard public APIs, to fake a network drive which is centrally configured to 'mount' folders, which can actually be ODFB/SP libraries or network shares. It allows a network administrator to deploy different mounted folders to different user groups.

If this idea of a 'fake network drive' were incorporated with OFDB, it would have numerous advantages. For one, the OFDB client could rely on a document database technology to keep its local cache, and forget trying to manage actual files on disk. It could start to use standard public use APIs rather than proprietary technologies, and it could even incorporate APIs for things like DropBox/GDrive/Box.net/Alfresco/whatever; allowing the sync client to become a true "One Drive".

In my view, there is no point in trying to recreate Zee Drive, and OneDrive needs people like the MVP behind Zee Drive on its team. I therefore would like to suggest you seriously investigate the insight behind the creation of this tool, and investigate the possibility of incorporating this sort of capability into the ODFB product by "embracing and extending" it :)

The product 'Zee Drive' by Thinkscape has some great ideas on how to achieve reliable use of ODFB for everyday desktop client users. It relies on a 'localhost server' and connect to 365 via standard public APIs, to fake a network drive which is centrally configured to 'mount' folders, which can actually be ODFB/SP libraries or network shares. It allows a network administrator to deploy different mounted folders to different user groups.

If this idea of a 'fake network drive' were incorporated with OFDB, it would have numerous advantages. For one, the OFDB client could rely on a document database…

I am aware that each user can create an Office 365 group by clicking the [+] icon which appears on the left side screen of OneDrive for Business. To prevent this, I carried out cmdlets to control from the Microsoft Planner, therefore Microsoft Teams also became unusable at the same time.

Then I have been changing the settings to activate Teams, however, each user is still able to create Office 365 groups from their own OneDrive for Business screen.
For the ease of management, I hope the feature will be implemented enables controlling to hide the [+] icon (to create the Office 365 groups) by settings as quickly as possible.

I am aware that each user can create an Office 365 group by clicking the [+] icon which appears on the left side screen of OneDrive for Business. To prevent this, I carried out cmdlets to control from the Microsoft Planner, therefore Microsoft Teams also became unusable at the same time.

Then I have been changing the settings to activate Teams, however, each user is still able to create Office 365 groups from their own OneDrive for Business screen.
For the ease of management, I hope the feature will be implemented enables controlling to hide the [+] icon (to create…

For the ease of management, I would like to the status from the list on the screen(UI) when the anonymous guest link of the expiration date has met. Let me explain the current behaivor below.

Select an item in OneDrive for Business, Set the expiration date of an anonymous guest link and sharing the data.

Even if the anonymous guest link expires and the user cannot view it, [Sharing] status displays as [Sharing in progress].

So that, I hope the function will be added that provides the status of each anonymous guest link on the interface whether the anonymous guest link has expired or not. In addition, it would be great if the character with "Sharing" status of "Expired" or "Sharing" will be changed to red marked.

For the ease of management, I would like to the status from the list on the screen(UI) when the anonymous guest link of the expiration date has met. Let me explain the current behaivor below.

Select an item in OneDrive for Business, Set the expiration date of an anonymous guest link and sharing the data.

Even if the anonymous guest link expires and the user cannot view it, [Sharing] status displays as [Sharing in progress].

So that, I hope the function will be added that provides the status of each anonymous guest link on the interface whether the anonymous guest…

I work in a very large company. The default language of our tenant is set to FR.
However, we have thousands of users in numerous countries.
For now, when a user chooses to change his preferred language in O365, all user interfaces change to the choosen language BUT OneDrive.
We determine that if we want the "OneDrive For Business" language to be changed, accordingly to the user language settings, we have to set additional languages from each user interface, and then modify every single user profil to use advanced language settings as desired...
Just a mess!
And imagine that we must ask any of our 20K users to perform that action... \o/

We would be pleased if MS provides us at least a tool (or a powershell command) to add alternate languages to any SPO site (OneDrive site).
And we would be delighted to be able to change the default language for a SPO site to whatever language our users ask us.

The best option for us would be an integration of the application directly provided by MS in our tenant.
This way the user language settings would be used and extended to all the other tenant’s features.
This actual application behavior doesn't really make any functional sense to us.

I work in a very large company. The default language of our tenant is set to FR.
However, we have thousands of users in numerous countries.
For now, when a user chooses to change his preferred language in O365, all user interfaces change to the choosen language BUT OneDrive.
We determine that if we want the "OneDrive For Business" language to be changed, accordingly to the user language settings, we have to set additional languages from each user interface, and then modify every single user profil to use advanced language settings as desired...
Just a mess!
And imagine that we…

Consider the following scenario:
1) Create a folder in a team site
2) Have person X use the OneDrive for Business sync client to sync the team site to their PC
3) Change permissions on the folder such that person X no longer has even read or view access.
4) Have person X sync.

The files they no longer have access to remain on their PC. This is a fairly major security problem. Support told me that when permissions change I need to have everyone remove and recreate their syncs. This is obviously completely impossible to actually make work in a company or team site of any real size.

The sync needs to include permissions metadata, and the sync client needs to remove local copies of folders and files that user is no authorized to view. This is absolutely critical for HR, finance, etc. type documents.

Consider the following scenario:
1) Create a folder in a team site
2) Have person X use the OneDrive for Business sync client to sync the team site to their PC
3) Change permissions on the folder such that person X no longer has even read or view access.
4) Have person X sync.

The files they no longer have access to remain on their PC. This is a fairly major security problem. Support told me that when permissions change I need to have everyone remove and recreate their syncs. This is obviously completely impossible to actually make work in…

I am aware that the data in PC is generally designed to be saved within C drive. I am currently worrying about the possibility of PC performance degradation due to lack of storage capacity so I hope the feature to be implemented that enables to create One Drive for Business's (OneDrive.exe) sync folder within the partition excluding C drive or PC' housed drive.

In 2018 we will begin a 12 month deployment of Windows 10 + Office 365. 45,000 physical devices will be replaced and 15,000 devices will be turned into kiosks accessing virtual desktops. Would like to incorporate OneDrive into the personal data namespace, but you explicitly state there is no support for the sync client (and thus Files On-Demand) for virtual desktops (VDI), and that eliminates OneDrive usage for all since the user experience has to be identical across physical and virtual. If I can't do it for virtual then I can't do it for physical.

Request explicit statement of support for sync client with Files On-Demand on Windows 10 virtual ldesktops.

In late December we will make our final architectual decision on user data.

In 2018 we will begin a 12 month deployment of Windows 10 + Office 365. 45,000 physical devices will be replaced and 15,000 devices will be turned into kiosks accessing virtual desktops. Would like to incorporate OneDrive into the personal data namespace, but you explicitly state there is no support for the sync client (and thus Files On-Demand) for virtual desktops (VDI), and that eliminates OneDrive usage for all since the user experience has to be identical across physical and virtual. If I can't do it for virtual then I can't do it for physical.

The default e-mail sent to an external user for sharing a document is confusing. The end-user needs to click the document name to be able to edit or open the document. This is OK, but the text directly below the document states:

This is a mandatory service communication. To set your contact preferences for other communications, click here.

Lots of end-users do click the link "Click here" and think this relates to the edit document proces. This is not the case, they navigate to an error page that states:

Sorry, that didn't work

You signed in with your Microsoft account

Solution
Please remove this confusing text and link!

Thanks in advance.

The default e-mail sent to an external user for sharing a document is confusing. The end-user needs to click the document name to be able to edit or open the document. This is OK, but the text directly below the document states:

This is a mandatory service communication. To set your contact preferences for other communications, click here.

Lots of end-users do click the link "Click here" and think this relates to the edit document proces. This is not the case, they navigate to an error page that states:

The file path limit of 256 characters is very limiting and annoying in and of itself. It is crazy that the mandatory folder name for the OneDrive for business folder is "OneDrive - Your Business Name". For my business, this adds on almost 20 characters! I already have a cloud service and when I tried to drag my folders over, many files will not sync simply because of this long folder name. I am forced to go back and re-work my folder and file structure.

As a global production company we use a fair amount of 2D layouts in our projects. We have recently started using SharePoint Online and Onedrive for manageing and standardising Projects. While our office workers love working with supported documents in SharePoint, our engineers hates it. It's a very cumbersome task, to always download - upload every 2D layout in order to work with them.

If we just could get a viewer it would be a good start enabling Autocad support and a great help to us.

For iOS and possibly adroid, it is needed to be able to control how much memory will be used to cache files, such as how the Amazon Cloud app works. I would like to limit it to 500 MB, or 1 GB. I would like to be able to see what is cached and individually remove items from the cache. I would like to be able to fully clear the cache. I would also like to be able to mark cached files to be except from this clear (always keep on device). With only a 16 GB iPhone, I run out of space, but see OneDrive consuming about 400 MB. When low on space, clearing the cache would be very helpful.

For iOS and possibly adroid, it is needed to be able to control how much memory will be used to cache files, such as how the Amazon Cloud app works. I would like to limit it to 500 MB, or 1 GB. I would like to be able to see what is cached and individually remove items from the cache. I would like to be able to fully clear the cache. I would also like to be able to mark cached files to be except from this clear (always keep on device). With only a 16 GB iPhone, I run…

Although at this point, I am able to finish completing the creation of folder, I hope the behavior to be improved that enables to give authorization properly to me because I have no authorization that I am supposed to be given.

The current solution is making a copy. If device b or the web is used with the same files as device a has not yet finished syncing - e.g. think about last played property update of audio files - then this is going to result in a conflict. I have ran into this myself while moving directory trees and updating photo file properties. The work to clean up duplicates is tremendous. Another ******************* forum shows I am not the only one frustrated by this. I feel it would be nice if we would have OneDrive and device file systems to have fundamental, integral design for sync.

The current solution is making a copy. If device b or the web is used with the same files as device a has not yet finished syncing - e.g. think about last played property update of audio files - then this is going to result in a conflict. I have ran into this myself while moving directory trees and updating photo file properties. The work to clean up duplicates is tremendous. Another ******************* forum shows I am not the only one frustrated by this. I feel it would be nice if we would have OneDrive and device file systems to…